scientific update of the week. billions and billions of -- billions. good to see you, liz. thanks so much. that does it for us on this sunday. i'm eric shawn. >> jamie: and i'm jamie colby. shannon bream up next. have a great day. >> the sand is running out of the hourglass and we want to make clear to the syrian regime that they need to be willing to end the violence and start the serious business of a political transition. >> shannon: secretary of state hillary clinton giving syria a wake-up call warning that time is running out for a failing peace plan while the syrian military makes a show of force asking other nations to stay away. going green or going broke? critics want it to head back to part saying the $26 a gallon

biofuel is a waste of precious taxpayer dollars. proponents say it's vital to the military future. states rights vs. civil rights as texas gets ready to argue its voter i.d. law is legal and the justice department is overstepping its bounds. all that and jack's snack packs. meet a little guy on a very big mission to give the troops a little taste of home. i'm shannon bream. "america's news headquarters" live from the nation's capital starts right now. >> shannon: syria is staging a big show of military might in what appears to be a warning to other countries. stay out of its conflict. syria's state-run news agency says the military is conducting exercises to help troops ready to turn back outside aggression. peter doocy joins us live with details. hello, peter. >> hi, shannon. it was four months ago that kofi anaan laid out the six point

peace plan as part of his duty as the special u.n. envoy and the first part of that plan called for a cease-fire but that did not catch on and neither did the rest of the plan so now, anaan says so far, the peace process has failed telling a french newspaper that "significant efforts have been made to try to resolve this situation peacefully. obviously, we have not succeeded and perhaps there's no guarantee that we will succeed. anaan just arrived moments ago in damascus in syria to try to save his peace plan but here in washington, the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton told us this morning it's going to be a struggle because two of the main superpowers in the region, russia and china have nothing to gain from a peace in syria. >> i think russia sees the syrian regime as critical of what it remains in its position in the middle east. those factors aren't going to change. if russia could replace assad

tomorrow with assad the clone, they would do it. it's not a matter of individuals. it's a question of the regime itself. >> hillary clinton thinks the failure of a nonplan should serve as a wake-up call for everyone and that the future should be abundantly clear to those who support the assad regime. >> the days are numbers. the sooner there can be an end to the violence and the beginning of a political transition process, not only will fewer people die but there's a chance to save the syrian state from a catastrophic assault. >> 50 people were killed in syria yesterday alone. more than 14,000 have been killed since march 2011. secretary of state clinton said the opposition in syria is

getting more effective in defending themselves and going on the offensive against the syrian military. shannon? >> shannon: peter doocy with the latest. thank you very much, peter. libyans are celebrating their first free elections since the capture and death of former president muammar qaddafi. senator john mccain was in the middle eastern country yesterday observing the election process. he said in a statement that despite a few setbacks, the elections were "generally free, fair and successful" and he tweeted this. honored to be here in libya observing first post qaddafi election, purple fingers everywhere. libyans voted yesterday for a 200 seat parliament that will act as a transitional legislature. the transitional government will elect a new prime minister before full elections next year under a new constitution. british newspapers are reporting that officials have arrested a terror suspect caught five times traveling too close to london's olympic park. the 24-year-old man is suspected of being an al-qaida operative and would be suicide bomber. his movement sparked fears he was on a reconnaissance mission

for an attack on the park during the upcoming olympics. this man was already known to the british government and under court order not to get close to that park. attorney general eric holder is moving past his contempt of congress citation in the fast & furious case and instead touting the record number of civil rights lawsuits the justice department is filing across the country. he had a friendly audience for that message in las vegas where he is speaking at the national council of laraza's annual conference, it's the largest hispanic rights advocacy group. among other pledges, holder said the administration will continue to aggressively examine voter i.d. laws nationwide. >> this bill will keep thousands of construction workers on the job rebuilding our nation's infrastructure. second, this bill will keep interest rates on federal student loans from doubling this year. which would have hit nearly 7 1/2 million students with an average of $1,000 more on their loan payments.

these steps will make a real difference in the lives of millions of americans. >> shannon: that was the president talking about a two-year transportation bill that funnels billions of dollars back to the states for road and bridge improvements. it is now law. but some critics say the bill sets transportation reform back decades. representative john mica was the lead sponsor of the bill and joins us now live. congressman micah, you're quoted as saying the new law is historic and the most important since eisenhower but some of your critics say not so. saying you're setting things back 20 years. how do you respond? >> well, since this is a sunday afternoon family show, i basically say that's hog wash. the bill actually eliminates or consolidates programs that have grown from six programs to over 130 programs of the department of transportation. it does so without earmarks, without tax increases, and i

think it does it responsibly by streamlining projects the red tape and paperwork that be built up over decades. >> shannon: let me ask you about this. it has $105 billion price tag. that funding goes through a couple of years. i know it's been years in the making and a lot of folks that supported this and touted it as one of the rare examples of bipartisanship and bicameral activity, something that got done, the critics say they worry about what's going to happen in two years. should the bill have been a longer term solution? >> probably should have been. this is about the best we can do in the financial condition that we're in. you have to remember all these bills were passed with thousands, 6,300 earmarks in the last bill. they were basically also paid for with deficits in spending. this is paid for and actually c.b.o., the congressional budget office scores $16.3 billion

savings for the taxpayers over some 10 years, a decade. so i think this is a different way of doing business in washington that's long overdue. >> shannon: we saw you there and saw the clip of the president talking about the bill and signing bill. we saw you there over his shoulder. you've been very, very critical about the president and his role or lack there of in the entire negotiation process. why did you go to the signing? >> first of all, i thought it was important. it was my bill. my name is on the bill. secondly, i think that i also let the american people know that he was awol except for the signing. the signing was sort of a showcase but he was absent through all of the negotiations, the administration did not provide leadership on this important legislation. in fact, he had complete control of the united states senate, the house of representatives, large

majorities and the white house and he actually killed the six-year long term bill back in 2009. so i wanted to refresh people's memory that, again, the president and his administration had nothing to do with this except the elaborate signing ceremony. >> shannon: i want to give you a chance to respond to something from your primary opponent, another republican out of florida and she said basically you call yourself the president's biggest cheerleader. she voted no on this bill. your response? >> well, that is actually in remarks to being a cheerleader for transportation and also for high speed rail in the northeast corridor which i think is very important. but i've led the way in stopping some of the obama wasteful spending on transportation first of all in high speed rail, working with some of the governors. governor scott and others who sent back money because the obama administration proposed the bait and switch high speed rail program.

so i think i've actually saved money and with this bill, we have substantial savings. we have people going to work this week rather than getting pink slips and we did it by paying for it responsibly instead of deficit spending. so i think my opponent happens to be off base. >> shannon: we know any time something gets accomplished in washington now, there will be supporters and detractors. congressman john mica, republican from florida thank you for your time. >> good to be with you, thank you. >> shannon: labor unions routinely blast big business calling them the fat cats and say it's time to pay their fair share. critics say the same unions are living large themselves and it's on the members' dime that dues are being used to pay for private jets, junk ets to resorts and to outright buy luxury properties. fox business' liz mcdonald looks into this. >> liz mcdonald with fox business. for two days now, fox business has been taking a deep dive into government documents at the

i.r.s. and the department of labor and property tax records to see how unions spend their tax-free funds and we're standing in front of the westin diplomat here in hollywood, florida. this is a luxury hotel that's actually not owned by donald trump. it's owned by a union. if unions were held to the same standards as other nonprofits they'd get a failing grade. according to a study by the illinois policy institute, unions spend less than half of the money they collect in dues on member interests like collective bargaining. instead, labor bigwigs blow money on themselves holding conferences in places like las vegas, the caribbean and right here in fort lauderdale, florida, the grand central of union junkets where in one year, the afl-cio spent $1.7 million in tax-free union funds on conferences. now, the issue is unions are nonprofits meaning they don't have to pay taxes on member dues although they have to pay taxes on their for profit activities like owning a resort hotel.

but the issue is the i.r.s. is telling fox business that it is looking at all nonprofits, possibly unions. the other controversy, too, is do teachers, firemen and cops, including transit workers all sorts of union members, do they know how their tax-free union dues are being spent? back to you, shannon. >> shannon: the recent heat wave has been a deadly one for more than 40 people including a 4-month-old infant left inside a locked car in suburban indianapolis. in another incident, 30 miles from there, rescuers in fishers, indiana, smashed the win -- windows of an s.u.v. to rescue an infant in a car that was 124 degrees. she was having seizures and had to be hospitalized. her mother is being charged with neglect. rick reichmuth is in the forecast weather center. any relief coming?

>> today a bit of relief coming. tomorrow, we wipe this out. look at all the states yesterday that had some sort of heat advisories now we have some heat advisories into the mid-atlantic states. pennsylvania, delaware, jersey, that has all expired and the heat indices today around 100 to 105. yesterday it was around 105 and 115. that's that temperature that it feels like. here's what you're talking about. much better back here across the plains. still feels like 97 in st. louis. but that's about 10 degrees at least better than you were yesterday. d.c. right now, though, very humid. your air temperature isn't that high but extremely humid there. it feels like around 107. here's what's going on. we have this big threat for wind and hail storms primarily wind as this cold front sags down here. anywhere you see the yellow this afternoon of the day heats up and humidity is there. we're going to be seeing some of these thunderstorms fire. obviously, still some people without power there, that's firing. it will bring relief temperature wise and rain wise.

we need relief down to areas of south. next five days, the front will stall out and bring significant amount of rain to eastern parts of texas as well in towards the tennessee valley and mid-atlantic states. a lot of moisture moving in towards the southeast. it will be a bit gloomy but means that temperatures are really dropping down. look at monday's temperatures. 86 in minneapolis. around the 80's in the great lakes. still a little bit above average but much improved where we've been in the last 30 days. a big pattern shift that will make everybody very, very happy. >> shannon: a welcomed one. thanks very much. >> you bet. >> shannon: a north carolina teen has been in a coma for more than a year and now the hospital is fighting his father to determine who will make his medical decisions. is the hospital overstepping its bounds or doing its duty for a patient? we'll have a fair and balanced debate. the navy turns to biofuel to fuel its green fleet. we'll tell you why next. [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing

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>> shannon: we're talking about $26 a gallon vs. $3.60 a gallon on a ship carrying hundreds of thousands of fuel. that difference can add up. is the controversial green fuels initiative a waste of money or vital to securing the military or country's energy future. the director of free market america and mike breen is the vice president of the truman national project and he served in the army. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> good to be with you, shannon. >> shannon: ryan, i want to start with you. it sounds like a lot of money but the navy makes a point, the navy secretary made it saying the military uses a big chunk of the fossil fuels we're using in the u.s. so we should be on the front lines of this so we should be finding new ways to save the environment and if we lead and set this example, it will benefit the rest of the country. why not? >> if biofuels are the future, then they ought to compete in the free market just like every other energy source.

the reality here is that if you pull into a gas station and you have the choice between $26 a gallon biofuel and $3.60 a gallon conventional fuel, most americans, i expect even most politicians if they're spending their own money will pick the conventional fuel but the unfortunate part of this is that you've got the left trying to make a political point and they're borrowing the prestige of the u.s. navy in order to do it. henry ford didn't have to shoot the horse in order to sell the car and if biofuel is a good product, they should sell it on the free market and until then, we expect that our government will exercise a modicum of common sense and buy the fuel that's most cost effective. >> shannon: mike, we've been talking about these numbers so in these examples we're talking about $26 a gallon vs. $3.60 a gallon. one of the ships that's trying this out left the port with 9,000 gallons of fuel. how do you justify it's worth it? >> let's be clear first of all

that the navy has one goal and so does the marine corps. to keep america safe, to make sure that we can confront and defeat any threat in any environment that we face and america continues to be the greatest fighting force that the world sees in any combat environment. we know how tenuous and dangerous our supply of fuel is in the middle east. we've been fighting the war there for 10 years and the navy wants to be able to fight and win and protect america no matter what the fuel supply situation is overseas so they're investing early, the next generation american-made fuels to ensure our men and women in uniform can fight and win no matter what happens in the middle east. of course, it's expensive at this point but it's a test project. if we said the navy couldn't invest in navigational aids more expensive than a compass, we never would have had a g.p.s. this is about the american military keeping it safe. >> shannon: how do you respond? is it the job to be on the cutting edge of technology? >> i think that ultimately

we're not in the business of asking government to pick winners and losers. the safest and surest way to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy is to unleash domestic energy production. the problem is that that's not what the left want. groups like michael's are interested in getting rid of coal, oil and natural gas that account for about 82% of domestic energy use in the united states! they don't have much of an alternative and we know that the only way that they can sell it is that they can make cheap fuels seem expensive and expensive fuel seem cheap and that means government punishes successful industries through overregulation and then subsidizes failing ones through oversubsidization. that's not what the american people want. we found that out with solyndra and all this is an attempt by the left to borrow the prestige of the military for a political stunt. >> shannon: give you a chance to respond there. what is the goal? is it getting rid of coal and all the other options? >> no, the navy hasn't used coal for 100 years.

i think ryan ought to know that. our goal is to make sure the men and women who are on the front lines, out there, confronting the chinese in pacific, dealing with iran where they want to close off the oil supply, it's our navy that have to face those threats. if our men and women say they want this technology, i'm declined to give it to them. going on a witch hunt for far left radicals is not what this is about. >> shannon: thank you both for weighing in and we appreciate your time on this very important debate. >> thank you, shannon. >> thank you. >> shannon: we have been tweeting this story all morning. we want to know what you think. we asked, do you think the navy is spending more on biofuel is important energy reform or a waste of your taxpayer money? we've gotten back a lot of feedback on this already. james says he's not sure but i do know we should save our natural resources. here's what tammy had to say. tax dollars spent to promote green energy is disturbing in light of our national debt. tweet us your thoughts to at anhqdc or at shannon bream.

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>> shannon: syria's president is accusing the u.s. of fueling the uprising against his government as diplomats admit the syrian peace plan is failing. peter doocy is standing by with some of your top stories. hi, peter. >> hi, shannon. secretary of state hillary clinton is warning that time is running out for peace hopes in syria. they say the leader kofi anaan's acknowledge that his peace plan is failing could be a "wake-up

call" and the syria state could collapse. remember to check your computer for malware or risk losing internet service at midnight eastern time. thousands of people across the country had their computers infected by the malicious software last year and tonight is when the f.b.i. cuts off the servers that were a temporary safety net to keep the infected computers on line. starting tomorrow, texas will take its fight over its new voter i.d. laws to u.s. district court. lawyers for the state will argue that the justice department has no legal authority to block the new law requiring voters to show a photo i.d. before casting a ballot. and massachusetts congressman barney frank has tied the knot with his long time partner, frank married jim reddy yesterday in boston's ceremony attended by more than 300 friends, family and colleagues. those are the top stories right now. back to you. >> shannon: peter, thank you.

>> president obama is focused on making sure that he's singled out like a laser getting the jobs created in our economy turned around with or without help from the republicans. >> this president can't fulfill a promise. they're living in fantasy land and we're going to put this dream of an end to theirs in america. save america. fire barack obama. >> shannon: that was the chair of the democratic national committee, debbie wasserman schultz and reince priebus who chairs the republican national committee. they were talk jobs this morning on "fox news sunday". i sat down with john roberts who is in for chris wallace this week to hear about the interviews. john roberts in today for chris on "fox news sunday." welcome to washington. good to see you here. >> good to be with you. >> shannon: you had top democrats and top republicans,

break them down. >> chairman of the dnc was on and said they are happy with 28 straight months of job growth in the economy but when you look at the numbers, that was really true the first three months of this year when there was an average of 225,000 jobs being created every month. if you look at the last three months, job growth is anemic and below where you need to be to tread water with population growth so in the same way that if you put your money in the bank instead of investing it in the stock market and maybe the down side is not so bad. still, you're not keeping up with inflation and the jobs numbers are not keeping up with population growth so it is slowly going backwards now. the problem for mitt romney, though, is he can't seem to make that stick. that argument stick. we asked reince priebus about that and asked our panel about it as well. bill crystal had an interesting figure and said that could be because when you look at poll numbers, 41% of people who are asked think that president obama has a clear plan to fix the economy even though the majority of people don't. when you ask the same question of mitt romney, only 27% of

people think he has a clear plan which may speak of the idea that if mitt romney wants to gain ground and wants to gain ground on president obama and he's losing in a lot of the big swing states, he needs to be more specific about what he'd do to turn things around. >> shannon: some people look at his web site and his 59 point plan and say, you know, the campaign has got to boil that down in a way that people can understand it and it's maybe five points instead of 59. >> the famous book only had 39 steps, right? how does somebody read a 59 point economic plan? that was the consensus among our panel today, that mitt romney needs to be more specific but needs to be more specific in a way that people can understand. and, you know, waving around a plan or just talking about a plan that has 59 steps if they're not specificity doesn't get him anything. they're suggesting that it might be better to have a 10 point plan and actually have a plan. >> shannon: you had members of congress from each side of the aisle to talk about the effort that's going to happen this week to vote on a full repeal of the president's health care law. >> that's coming up on

wednesday. no question it's going to pass the house and a couple of democrats will join in as well and so they'll have the repeal in the house and then it goes nowhere. so i challenged georgia congressman to say, you know, this is going to go nowhere like it has the past five or six other times it's been done. the senate would block it even if the senate passes it, the house would veto it. they want to get on the record heading into the election campaign of saying we're against this and we've got some other ideas that we think can push forward with some sort of health care reform. congressman basara who was on with him suggest all the things you want to do are already in the health care plan. a good, vigorous debate over the two of them of where we should go with health care. there's no question it will go down to defeat in the house and stop there. >> shannon: like so many things these days. interesting conversations. thanks for the preview. >> thanks, good to be with you, shannon. >> shannon: you can catch all the interviews with the dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz

and rnc chair reince priebus including the panel as well as representatives tom price and bsara after our show at 2:00 and 6:00 eastern. mortgage rates are hitting record lows with the 30-year fixed rate average dropping to 3.62%. great news for people who are looking to buy a home or refinance. but will you really actually be able to go that low? senior business correspondent brenda buttner joins us to give us the real scoop on that. hi, brenda. >> hey, shannon. you know, it's true with almost anything you want to buy, get it when prices are low. as far as houses go, not only are sales prices near bottom, down 30% over the past five years, but the price of the cash to finance them has ner been lower. the average is six month mortgage rates continue to fall near all time record lows and the average 30-year fixed mortgage has matched or hit a new low in 10 of the last 11 weeks. on the other side of the spectrum, the one year

adjustable rate is hovering at new lows, too. so get out your application and checkbook, not so fast. trouble is mortgage standards and refinancing rules are still so strict it's almost impossible to qualify. sure, car loans and credit cards are easier to get these days. but home sweet home, uh-huh. lending standards for mortgages are higher today than they were right after the financial crisis. "wall street journal" reports that 9 out of 10 of all new mortgages approved last year went to owners with very high credit scores and plenty of cash. before the financial mess, it's about 50%. of course, no one wants banks to go back to the loose standards when they practically gave away huge loans to people who could clearly not afford them. but decent borrowers have taken hits to their credit with unemployment so stubbornly high for so long and foreclosures have fallen on many with decent records. even more frustrating to buyers,

there are more than two more million mortgages in the for closure process and the same number of loans three or four payments behind so the inventory of cheap homes is getting bigger and bigger and the price to finance them is getting lower and lower. don't count on getting a set of new keys soon. mortgages are still not opening up to many of us. >> shannon: tough market out there. thank you very much. a north carolina man is locked in a legal fight with a hospital over guardianship of his son. weeks before his high school graduation last year, he suffered a brain injury in a car crash. he has been in the hospital ever since. his father's medicaid initially paid for his care but freddie's coverage ended when he turned 18. now the medical bills are approaching $4 million and the hospital says freddie's father didn't complete the proper paperwork to get medicaid coverage for his son so it's now up to a county judge to appoint

a guardian to over see his medical and financial needs. do you agree, the hospital says it's trying to secure medicaid tweet us your thoughts at shannon bream. our freedom fight debate on this topic coming up. and when we come back some amazing pictures from millions of miles away. on the surface of mars! a little bit of a spoiler alert here. no green men spotted. [ male announcer ] before you take it on your road trip... we take it on ours. this summer put your family in an exceptionally engineered mercedes-benz now for an exceptional price during the summer event. but hurry, this offer ends july 31st. ♪ ♪

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as it maneuvers across the landscape. the rover landed in 2004 for a mission that was supposed to last three months. another rover will land next month on a mission to search the martian soil for signs of microscopic life. >> i believe i'm -- i've got business at hand way more than what it does. i will say that. >> shannon: that is fred lumpy, the north carolina father who is fighting a hospital over guardianship of his son. we told you earlier that freddie lumpy jr. has been hospitalized with a severe brain injury for more than a year. he was in a car accident and he was dropped from medicaid when he turned 18. the cost of his care is now approaching $4 million. the hospital said his father hasn't done the right paperwork to get his son's medicaid coverage reinstated. that's why it wants to step in or have an outside guardian appointed. local tv stations are reporting that the dad has secured medicaid for his son. we do not have independent confirmation of that for now.

now, joining us for this freedom fight debate are attorneys david gibbs and sharon liko. thank you both for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: i want to start with you, david. $4 million in costs, that's a lot of money for the hospital to bear. if they say the dad isn't getting the proper paperwork done, why not have an outside guardian? >> shannon, number one, it's shocking that a hospital would be so arrogant to go and tell a single working class dad that is trying to get the paperwork filled out that we are going to try to remove you as guardian. what they're really saying is we know better than a dad how to stand up for the son. there was clearly a glitch. the boy went to age 18, went from being a minor to an adult. the dad has been fighting with the bureaucratic morass government workers and hospital workers. what upsets me about this the case is the fact that instead of helping this dad, the hospital went ahead and sued him. it's ludicrous that they would think they know better than a father who is fighting for the life of his son.

>> shannon: is this too extreme of a step or a hospital trying to care for a patient? >> i think it's the hospital trying to get paid! we're not talking about pulling the plug or the hospital not wanting to give him services. i mean, the -- he owes the hospital $2 to $4 million. who is going to pay that? if medicaid doesn't pay it, guess what? we get to pay it or the taxpayers of north carolina. be responsible. i certainly my heart goes out to this man and his son but he's got to do what he needs to do. and if he spends so much time on facebook talking about his situation, maybe he could just spend the same amount of time getting the paperwork filled out, getting medicaid on board and then -- force>> shannon: the hospital is saying they want to

have somebody making sure the paperwork is getting done. if the father loses guardianship, what other decision-making capabilities would he lose? >> all decision making. i mean, they flat sued this man and said we'll decide what treatment, what care, what therapy, we're going to decide whether your son lives or dies. we're going to take this away from you. we the arrogant hospital, we the administrators know more than you as the father. now, i will say i talked to him at great length and he has been through tons of offices, the bureaucratic morass and the hospital instead of helping him sued him. he goes every day to help his son with therapy. this is a diligent dad. now, shannon, you've already reported some of the good news. it looks like medicaid has been granted. it does appear that this dad is going to remain the guardian. it's what he and his lawyer are telling me. it looks like this story will have a happy ending, the sad part for me is a hospital would say we know better than the family and i think this is one

of the scary things as we look at the obamacare and the shift in our nation, is it going to be the government? is it going to be the hospitals making the decision? >> that isn't what the hospital is saying. hospital is saying they need to get paid and if the father can't step up to the plate and get it done, they need somebody that will. >> shannon: let me ask you -- how much duty does the hospital have to try to help the father walk through and navigate some of the paperwork or is that not part of their duty? >> that's part of their duty. they have a social worker that will work with the family and help them get benefits. so where the pitfall is, i don't know. but he wasn't getting the paperwork together and obviously, he did because the pressure was on. so it wasn't something that he couldn't get done. and unfortunately, it took the hospital to take this kind of step in order for him to get the job done. so east got to be responsible about that. >> it took the media attention of the hospital really realizing

how arrogant they are as administrators to sue the -- >> the judge gave him a deadline. the father had a deadline of july 25th and he obviously has met the deadline so there isn't going to be a problem. had he not -- >> no, it's been resolved. >> it's been resolved. >> shannon: we have to leave it here. it's excellent news as you both note and we can end on this joint agreement from all of us, the good news is that this medicaid and the care will continue for this young man. thank you both for weighing in. and we want to let folks know that you've been tweeting us quite a bit on this and hopefully you get to some of your tweets on screen as well. david and sharon, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: all right. she is making history enlisting in one of the six new combat-related jobs now open to women in the army. you'll hear her story from her live next. [ male announcer ] every day, the world gets more colex. and this is what inspires us to create new technology.

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>> shannon: coming up, can governor mitt romney capitalize on president obama's bad news? jobs, when are they coming back? we'll ask the former mississippi governor and texas may have lost the challenge to the president's health care law but the state's legal team is coming back it washington for another battle with the administration. this time it's over voter i.d. texas congressman is speaking

out on america's news headquarters. plus meet the real g.i. jane. this 21-year-old is the first woman to enlist in one of six combat arms supports jobs the army has just opened up to women. >> this is a fox news alert. egypt's new president is flexing his muscle and gearing up for a fight with the military. he has ordered parliament to reconvene in direct defiance of the military decree that dissolved the legislature last month and a court ruling. the military ruled egypt for 16 months for hosni mubarak after a popular uprising. morsi took office on june 30th. one of the first women to enlist in one of six combat arm support jobs the army has opened up to women. after basic training in november, she will go on to become a 91 bradley fighting vehicle system maintainer. she joins us now live from pittsburgh to talk about making

history. thanks for joining us today. >> thanks for having me. >> shannon: i understand you like engines and you like motors, you've raced a bit yourself. what pushld you to go ahead, join the military and be able to pursue this job? >> i've been thinking about this since high school but i decided to go for the college route. after that, i took a job as a trapper at a sporting facility shooting people how to shoot shotguns and everything like that and then once i got my family's support behind me, i decided to go ahead and talk to the recruiters in the morgantown office and started the whole process and we found out which jobs i was qualified for. and i found this one to be the best one for me. >> shannon: it sounds like a great match for your interests and your skills. is there any added pressure do you feel being one of six women now taking on this position for the first time in the army? >> it's a little bit of pressure because i feel like i have to be a role model to other

women who want to do this but i feel like not -- women don't need to be nervous to do this and if that's what you're interested in, you need to go ahead and try it. >> shannon: you will go through training at least the first part of it in november. moving forward, you'll be in a position that's now considered combat related. do you know where you'll go? are you excited or are you anxious? >> i'm not sure where i'm going yet after all my training but i'm very -- i'm very excited. >> shannon: what do you hope your experience will be like? i mean, you're going to work on something that very few people in the world even know how it works! >> yeah, i'm just excited for the whole army experience to see where it takes me, to get to travel and all the knowledge that i can possibly get out of it. >> shannon: how are you hoping that your fellow soldiers will respond when you join them out there in the field? >> well, i know that i'm going to be one of the only females probably around a whole lot of men. but i hope they don't treat me any differently. i mean, i'm a strong woman. i can take care of myself and i

hope they don't think that i can't handle this job. >> shannon: the recruiter certainly thinks that you're up to the task and we thank you for your service and being willing to step up and serve our country in this way. thanks. >> thank you. >> shannon: all right. we got to take a quick break. when we come back, staying one step ahead of the mexican drug cartels. take a look inside the latest way that agents are protecting our southern border. that's next. ♪ why not try someplace different every morning? get two times the points on dining in restaurants with chase sapphire preferred.

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>> shannon: in order to stay a step ahead of the drug dart cartels law enforcement agents add another line of defense to the rio grande deploying high tech gun boats. casey stegall went out on the water for a first hand look at the latest efforts to secure america's southern border. >> reporter: the rio grande river in south, texas. only a few hundred feet of water separates mexico from the u.s. >> it is rough down here. >> reporter: and that is putting it lightly. >> three rafts. >> almost every single day the smugglers try and use the river to move drugs, weapons and people into our homeland. >> the people that we go up against with the drug cartels they have unlimited moneys and unlimited firepower. >> reporter: but the new 34-foot boats boasting 900-horsepower should help serve as a deterrent. as the drug cartels on the

mexican side get more and more brazen law enforcement has to be ahead of the game. these are equipped with bulletproof shields to automatic machine guns that can fire off 900 rounds a minute. >> it is important for us to be armed better than they are. >> reporter: they have to be. out of the nearly 2,000-mile border the united states shares with mexico the vast majority of it is with the lonestar state and the terrain here is unique compared to california, new mexico or arizona. >> we have 1250 miles of water with mexico all of which there is water in between. and because of the remoteness and the ruggedness of it they are unable to put fence in places. they are unable to cover the vast remoteness. this is just another asset to be in the remote areas. >> reporter: soon there will be section of the shallow water

intercepters out on patrol with a price tag of about $580,000 apiece. funding that has come from dhs grants and the texas legislature. in dallas, casey stegall, fox news. we need to continue to make more progress obviously and we haven't gone far enough. we need to keep pressing forward and continue to focus on middle class tax breaks. [ laughter ] wow, i don't know if she is on vacation in new hampshire or on mars. i can't figure it out. the fact of the matter is people are not per better off today than they were three or four days ago. >> shannon: a heated debate over whether president obama or mitt romney is better equipped to fix the economy and turn around the nation's unemployment numbers.

i'm shannon bream. hour number two live from the nation's capital starts right now. after her to month of high unemployment the battle over who can turn around the job market in 2012 is front and center on the sunday shows. steve centanni is live with supporters of the obama and romney campaigns had to say today. hi, steve. >> all eyes certainly on the economy in the next four months since it could very well determine the outcome of the presidential race. in the face of friday's dismal job numbers democrats are acknowledging today the economy is not performing well enough. >> we saw on friday that our economy is growing and we are adding jobs. the president believes we are -- >> not enough jobs. >> we are not growing fast enough and not adding up in enough jobs. >> after four year hass is the argument for reelectment. >> we made progress but we have a long way to go.

>> the president also said we have to grow the economy even faster. just the same, he he and his supporters say we are on the right track because private sector jobs are growing even though the pace is way too slow. the president said the 80,000 jobs added in june represent a step in the right direction and points out that 4.4 million jobs have been created over the past 29 months. not surprisingly, gop candidate mitt romney telling a different story, seizing on-the-job report as evidence president obama is doing a poor job and needs to be replaced in the white house. romney's supporters also took to the sunday air waves including the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> this has been the most tepid recovery if it it is a recovery from a deep recession in american history. the economy is just sputtering along. the reason for that in my judgment is because of what the administration chose to do. spend, borrow, pass this new obama care law with its penalty

tax in it. its mandate tax. all of this is slowing the economy down. >> mcconnell also says the president's policies are not working and that is what this presidential campaign is all about. shannon? >> shannon: we shall see. steve, thank you very much. unemployment remains at 8.2% with just 30,000 jobs added in the month of june. how will the state of the economy and joblessness play in the election? joining us, governor haley barbour. the president said it is a step in the right direction. jobs were added, not lost. is is that accurate? >> it is abysmal. in the last quarter we added fewer jobs than during the regan recovery after the '82 recession we were adding more jobs every month than we added in the last three months. and how can you say it is progress when last month more

people signed up for social security disability than got a job? in april three times more people gave up looking for a job than actually got one. mitch mcconnell was tender when said the recovery was tepid. he is right. a lot of americans don't see a recovery at all and the joblessness -- job creation is at a record low for this point in a recession in a recovery. and the american people are rightly worried about it. >> millions of americans undoubtedly still suffering as they are looking for work or underemployed or many have give up work. the president says he inherited a terrible devastating situation and he has done what he can but three years is not enough time to turn it around. >> that is what he says. with barack obama it is always somebody else's faults. bush did it.

we had a hurricane. an oil spill. the truth of the matter is ronald reagan in hai inheritedp recession where unemployment got worse than it is now. at this stage we were creating jobs by the hundreds of thousands every month. and what we see here is policies by the obama administration that make it harder to create jobs. how does an employer decide to hire more people when doesn't know what the obligations and costs are going to be for him under the obama care policy? how does an employer decide to expand his business or her business when the president keeps proposing the largest tax increase in american history that will fall almost entirely on employers. it is very hard to have more employees if employers don't have the money to pay them. >> shannon: let's talk about the romney campaign and how it is or isn't doing a good job of talking about the economy.

a poll last month from the a.p. showed when it came to the economy, 55% of people said they disapproved of how the president was handling it and yet we see in a number of key swing states he is still polling ahead of mitt romney. where is the romney campaign falling short of communicating its own message? >> in the last month the obama administration i'm sorry the obama campaign and its super pac supporters have in target states like, ohio, outspent romney support hes three to one and in those campaigns it is the attacks by the obama supporters are not bad policy by romney. it is romney doesn't care about people like you. romney exports jobs to china. romney is too rich. romney's wife is an equestrian. go down the list and it is almost that silly. i was on a show this morning where a democratic senator was complaining about governor romney's tax returns. now, when you are running for president of the united states and you have been in there for

three and a half years and you have to resort to talking about the other guy's tax returns and that he is not like -- he doesn't care about people like you, it is because they can't run on their record. romney has to continue to make this election a referendum on obama's record and the failed results of those policies. but it is not enough. he has to also give people something to vote for 86 think as somebody that has been around for presidential campaigns for longer than you have been alive, for 44 years, there is a right timing and i think they are probably thinking that they want to would over on the offensive about here is our policy compared to obama's policy at the right time and they he want to keep the focus right now on what the american people know. obama's policies are hurting the economy and making it harder to create jobs. his policies, obama's are part of the problem. that has got to be burned into people's minds.

but at the end of the day, romney does have to give people something to vote for. >> shannon: let's talk about the healthcare decision from the supreme court and the debate a over what you are going to pay if you don't comply with the mandate is a penalty or a tax. i'm confused, it as rollercoaster just trying to keep up day-by-day with the correct terminology. the supreme court called it a tax. what does the romney campaign do with this because the president is constantly or his campaign is constantly throwing it back on to romney saying regardless of what you call it, it is something that he engineered by having a mandate in massachusetts? >> gigantic difference between a state having a mandatory requirement. every state in the united states requires that you buy automobile insurance if you have an automobile. every state. the states have that authority under the constitution as part of the general plenary police power. the federal government has no such authority. it has no police power. so first of all, we are talking

about romney doing something in a state that just applies to that state and is consistent with constitutional law. what obama denied, denied, denied to the point of saying if the republicans call this a tax they are lying or words to that effect, now the law survives because the supreme court says, of course, this is a tax and the supreme court is right. of course, it is a tax. it is more than that. think about all of the small businesses in the united states that are going to have to pay $3,000 a year per employee under this law on top it of the individual mandate that we have been talking about. how are those small businesses going to stay in business? well, to survive you know what most of them do? they will have to lay people off because a lot of them are going to have to pay more in taxes, fines, penalties, call it what you want. they will have to pay more for not being able to afford $9,000

and $12,000 health insurance policies they will pay more than they ever actually made as a profit in any year in the history of the business. call it what you like, it is a tax. but the main thing is it sucks money away from job creation from innovation, from expansion. and it is a big part of why job creation has been so laggerred this year. obama care itself makes it difficult to create jobs. >> shannon: we will see how it plays out. governor always good to see you. thanks for coming in. speculation surrounding mitt romney vice presidential pick has been simmering for awhile now. one man on the list, ohio senator rob portman was in new hampshire this week and created a bit of a mini frenzy that he tried to tamp down. >> as i said, i'm here mostly on a college tour with my daughter but at the same time

helping out a little bit with the new hampshire republican party and also with the romney campaign. >> do you have plans to meet privately with the governor before you leave? >> i'm hot going to get into it -- i'm not going to get into it. no, i superno plans. >> shannon: well, if he wants the job analysts say portman has a number of things going for him. from a major swing state and considered a team player who wouldn't overshadow romney. >> we are hoping to bring you sound from the attorney general eric holder. we will get that to you next. here is the story. the attorney general told a group of hispanic civil rights activists in las vegas that the justice department filed more civil rights lawsuits in the past three years than at any other time in its history. speaking at the annual conference holder says the department will continue to aggressively examine voter i.d. laws around the country and fight to strike them down in some cases. >> and we will do everything in our power to stand vigilant

against any and all measures that threaten to undermine the effectiveness and integrity of our election systems and to infringe upon the single most important right of american citizen isship and that is the right to vote. >> shannon: holder also took issue with the recent supreme court section that uphold the key section of arizona's immigration law. secretary of state hillary clinton met with her pakistani counter part in tokyo to discuss reviving relations between the two nations. it has been a rocky year and a half but both countries signaling they do have mutual interests. maninterests. not everyone is happy about the you my route planned. the decision sparked a huge protest from thousands of hard line islamists. secretary clinton used tough language when she turned attention to syria calling for

bashir assad to step down. >> the sand is running out of the hourglass and we want to make clear to the syrian regime that they need to be willing to end the violence and start the syria's business of a a political transition. >> shannon: the syria military started major exercises, a move being seen as a warning to the rest of the world not to intervene in a crisis that killed an estimated 14,000 people so far. >> afghanistan is poised to receive $16 billion in international aid over the next four years. donors from about 70 countries and organizations made the announcement during a conference in tokyo. the aid will be used for development and security afters pull out. afghan president hamid karzai is pledging to improve security and stop corruption. tens of thousands of americans may lose their internet 70s because of mall

wear that could have been on their computer since last year. laura ingle so explain how we can protect ourselves. >> you could wake up to an unwelcome surprise if your computers were infected by malicious software. now, the mallware was first discovered in 2007. a quarter of compromised ip addresses come from the u.s. approximately 45,000 computers and businesses beware. 10% of fortune 500 companies reportedly have a computer that is infect. warnings have been issued for months telling internet users to check their computers for the virus started by hackers. agents realized if they turned off the malicious servers being used to control the computers all the victims would lose their internet service so they set up temporary servers while agents continued their

investigation so users can still use the internet. here is the deal the safety net expires tonight at midnight which has led to what many people are calling internet dooms day or malware monday. you still have time to check your computer. the pen fbi aringed for a prive company where users can see if they are compromised. here is the website. www. dcwg.org. cybersecurityexpertstellfoxther earealwayssteps you can take. use a firewall when browsing the internet and not clicking a link or accepting an attachment if you have any doubt it is not what it seems to be. >> shannon: good advice. thank you. the rains in colorado may have helped dampen the wildfires out west but they are creating another problem. mud slides. road crews had to bring out the snowplows in the middle of the

summer to clear the highways of all of the mud. the daneer is not over yet. flash flood warnings may continue into monday. more people are getting a break from the extreme heat and expecting rain. rick reichmuth with the forecast. hi, rick. >> hi, shannon. the rain across the west is the monsoon rain. we have a monsoon season in the u.s. like in india. just means a seasonal shift in the wind pattern and that is what happens around the four corners. happens in the afternoon. noon yesterday and you start to see the thunderstorms fire in across the four corner states and one big batch of showers moving across areas of nebraska. big rain. it is great news we are so absolutely dry so even though the mud slides happened we will take that to get the rain out across the areas of the four corner. 103 st. louis. 107 louisville. 107 d.c. 108 in raleigh. humid along with the temperatures but changing. we have a front that is draped

here across kind of new england and towards the ohio valley and the severe weather is a threat today. not going to be talking about a major outbreak and nothing like last week but significant winds with some thunderstorms. the good news is the front moves in and the temps drop for everybody wack into th -- backe 80s by tomorrow. also relief in the form of rain the next 5 days. 4 to 8 inches across parts of texas across the tennessee valley and mid atlantic. we need the rain and cooler temperatures. both coming for this week. great news across much of the week. shannon? >> shannon: it is. and very welcome. also help on the way for some home owners. what one group is doing to try to help people avoid foreclosure. plus, will republicans or democrats control the house after november's elections. we will ask political guru lair arery sabato after the break.

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>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. roger federer has rallied to win yet another wimbledon title. federer beat the crowd favorite and day murray to win the first wimbledon final played under a roof. rain interinterrupted the final

in the third set when retractible roof was then closed. federer won three sets to one. the neighborhood assistance corporation is pairing lenders with home owners in need. the purpose is is to help families stay in their homes and avoid foreclosures. >> they have been on the road for four years. river time they go to a different city thousands flock to the event. the nonprofit matches home owners who may be under water and also people looking to buy a home to lenders and big banks. the representatives take into consideration things like job loss and medical costs and life circumstances and figure out exactly what you as a home owner need what you can afford and then the banks adjust your rate. >> that is why these are now the american dream events for both home buyers with the best mortgage in america and home owners who want to stay in their homes to restructure the

mortgage and make it affordable. >> and remember when i mentioned life circumstances. we met one man, terry gerald. he has been looking to buy a home for years now. the tarnish on his credit is he went through a divorce years ago. he hasn't been able to get a good rate and he tells us he knows plenty of people in a similar situation. here is what he he told us. >> it affects them personally and business wise because of the credit market the way that it is. people cannot get credit. it is really tight at the moment and programs like this will help people to either refinance their homes and get a better situation or to purchase a home. >> so what is in it for the banks? what are they getting out of it? >> basically they tell us they don't make any money when people go into foreclosure. it is a win win not only for home owners and home buyers but also the banks. >> shannon: hopefully it is a

win-win for are a lot of those folks. thank you, elizabeth. it appears charlie rangel edged out his democratic primary challenger. the new york city board of elections says he won by just 990 votes. in order for the latest results to become official they will have to certify them. either candidate can still contest the results. therdoes the texas voter i. law protect against election fraud or just make it harder for poor people to cast a ballot? louis gome hmert joins us next.

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senator john mccain is congratulating libya on its first major step towards democracy, free elections.

he traveled to libya to observe elections and called voting "generally free, fair and successful." secretary of state hillary clinton is warning that syria may collapse. clinton says the searon president must acknowledge his days are numbered. yesterday syria began mill tare arery exercises which some believe are a warning to the international community to stay out of the conflict. images sent to earth from the mars exploration rover opportunity. the new panor amic images released just days after it completed its 3,000th day. a lot of responses already to today's twitter question. the navy is spending $26 a gallon on biofuel. is that an important steps toward saving money or a waste

of money. keep your tweets coming. we will read more answers later on in the show. tomorrow the state of texas squares off against the justice department in federal court. at issue the state's new law requiring voters to show a photo i.d. to cast a ballot. they say the measure is needed. those against it say it ends up disenfranchising elderly poor and minority voters. joining us, louis gohmert, a republican from texas. we planned to have congress woman lee but she canceled. congress woman jackson lee is among those ki criticizing thew and they say it is those groups that will be impacted. older people, poor people and minorities. how do you you counter that

criticism of this kind of law? >> well, first of all, shannon, i have been in iraq, i have been in other countries where when they got to vote they were so excited they didn't mind risking their lives standing in line for hours to vote, putting their finger in blue dye to be identified in the face of 8 and a half by 11 flyers around the country that said you vote you die. and yet people are saying gee, it is too inconvenient to get a photo i.d. you have to have it if you want to make an appointment with the attorney general you have to have that photo i.d. or you are not getting in the justice department. i tried. and as we know, you look at the facts, georgia created a requirement for a photo i.d. and in the two elections since they haven't disenfranchised minorities. there has been an increased number of minorities. much more than the percentage

of white voters that came out. it didn't disenfranchise anybody. for those who say it is too oppressive to make people get a photo i.d., it costs money. if you are a pauper we followed the indiana law upheld by the supreme court although you never know what john roberts is going to do, maybe they can intimidate him by calling him political names again and get him to go the wrong way. the fact is people are not disenfranchised. it is very transparent what is going on. the administration that said they would be transparent. this is the only place they have been. where you have a president out there won't say as a king or a czar or cesar ace speak the law it exists. i'm overriding all congressional law on immigration. i'm making 800,000 to a million new illegals legal and you know pelo previous years saying to illegals you know you are going

to run things, get out there and you are the true patriots encouraging them basically to go vote. it is very transparent. they are creating illegals into potential voters and then they d.sot want photo i.d.s we which will allow dead people to continue to vote and allow those who shouldn't be voting to vote. >> shannon: let me ask you because folks on the other side will say those are all scare tactics and there aren't real cases of fraud that you can point to in texas. >> well, there have been. and you can go back to duvall county and lyndon johnson days when told supposedly his campaign manager now this man in this grave has every bit as much right to vote as all the other people in the cemetery. i mean those things have been going on. when you don't have a requirement for a photo i.d. it is hard to identify the fraud. so the fact is we know people are not disenfranchised by

requiring the requirement although the justice department is spending more tax dollars to an acorn type group catalyst that is -- they say on their website what their purpose is. it is to support the progressive movement and that doesn't mean that they are going to be an unbiased witness in court. the fact that they would hire a biased witness like this shows how desperate they are. any good trial lawyer knows you want expert witnesses who are unbias ised whed who have thatt reputation and the fact that he would give tax dollars to a biased group mean there's is no objective evidence he can point to. this section 5 of the voting rights amendment is a violation of equal protection. it was renewed for 25 are years with majority states many of whom had districts with more racial disparity than any of those that they were ramming

this down and that is a violation of equal protection and i hope some attorney general from the states will raise that in the next round of litigation because it is outrageous that this attorney general who knows nothing about justice who testified right in front of me that there are political dimensions to justice, well, there goes for this administration justice being blind. what they want is a political justice department. well, politics and justice are mutual le exclusive. if you do not have blind justice you don't have justice. >> shannon: we have is to leave it there. this will go to a federal court in d.c. and the voting rights section headed for the supreme court as well. we thank you for your time today, congressman. >> thank you, shannon. really appreciate you. >> shannon: house democrats are looking to make back the majority from republicans this

november but you how realistic is that hope? let's ask the director of the uva center for politics larry sabato. having technical problems so he is joining us by known. thanks for being with us. >> nice to be with you. >> we had the resign 86 of republican thaddeus mccotter a few days ago. where do we stand right now as far as the makeup of the house. >> it is 242 republicans, 193 democrats. of course, 218 is the major number. that is a their row majority of the house. >> shannon: best case scenario for the democrats. we heard a number of them and to the supporters their goal is to take back the house, we heard it a lot in recent months. what is the best case scenario for democrats? >> gaining about ten seats. they are not going to gain the 25 net seats that they need to gain. i don't say anything

definitively in july but i think it is likely that republicans stay in control of the house and it won't be a particularly close margin. >> shannon: best case scenario to republicans. >> they could come close to maintaininger that current majority. 218 is a narrow majority. they are at 24. 242. we have democrats in the worst case of gaining three to five seats. republicans would be reasonably close to where they are right now. and in the house of representatives you you don't need a lot of spare seats to run the house. you really don't. >> shannon: what are some of the key races or tightest races we should be watching? >> there are a lot of different categories of them. i would point for example to new york state, upstate new york, democrats have to protect incumbents like kathy hokel. she now holds the most republican see the in the state of new york. that is at best a tossup. she might win it she might not.

but republicans have a good shot at that with former eerie county executive chris colins. that is one example. another scam of of what republican -- another example is take seats of incumbents like congressman bill bray out in california. that has gotten more democratic in redistricting. he is no worse than a 50/50 favorite to hold his seat against scott peters who is a san diego port commissioner. >> shannon: can you make any predictions on the senate side? >> i saw senator mcconnell saying he has a 50/50 chance to be majority leader. i think that is about right. if mitt romney wins the presidency republicans will absolutely carry the senate. i don't think there is any question about that. >> very interesting. always is nice to look into your crystal ball. larry sabato thank you for your time.

>> thanks, shannon. >> drivers got a break at the pump last week but it did not last long after decisions in europe give oil prices a boost. brenda bruter i buttner explai. >> gas prices going back up. gad buddy .com warning drivers in the midwest about a looming price hike because of looming oil prices. >> prices will go higher specially in the great lakes where they already jumped 20 to 30 cents a gallon. >> giving oil prices a boost was the announcement of europe's plan to resolve its two year financial crisis. speculation agreements made between european countries to save the euro spurring optimism that fuel demand and economic growth will increase in the region. >> the market is really searching for good news and will run with any sort of good news that we get and that has

been the case. i would say we almost shifted from a sentiment of the market expecting huge increases very quickly to expecting nothing. and now that we have virtually no improvement or very slow improvement any sort of good news is taken and run with. and i think that is why prices have gone up. >> so put the dreams of gas falling below three bucks a gallon this summer on hold. but gas buddy says the national average should drop near that level between thanksgiving and christmas. we'll take it any time we can get it right, shannon? fill her up. >> any break at the pump is good news. brenda, thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: cat owners beware. there could be a microscopic threat lurking in your kitty's litter box. european researchers sea the bug could also be linked to personality changes, mental illness, even see with you side. president obama's biography

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and they're off. bulls charging in the streets for the annual feast. made famous by ernest hemingway in 1946. two people were caught by the horns of the bulls and dragged a little bit. luckily they were only slightly injured. president obama's memoir dreams from my father won raves and become a run away best seller. eye original gray pers have been chipping away -- are biographers have been chipping away at some of the passages. one author more than ever. >> we have known that barack

obama is self-made man. a restless figure with roots that stretch from honolulu to new york, indonesia to illinois. >> my story is part of the larger american story. >> and he told that story most fully in his 1995 memoir dreams interest my father. lit rarery debut that met with wide critical aclimb and huge sales. at the time, author obama admitted to changing names and compressing ronology. >> i was struck by how talented the writer was and what an unusual story it was. >> now, a pulitzer prize winning h historian has pain stakingly traced the life of america's first black president and it it presents more than three dozen material discrepancy. case in point. dreams relates how the president's patternal grandfather was detained and

tortured by british colonialists in a prison outside nairobi. marinist deems the tale unlikely. >> some were for the purposes of advancing seams in his book which haded mre to do with finding his racial identity. >> a composite character named regina who helped the young man embrace his african american heritage is believed to be based on michelle obama who wouldn't enter his life for another 8 years. similarly he argued of having quarterlied with his white girlfriend after they attended a black theater production in manhattan. the incident happened with a different woman in chicago. something the president admitted in an oval office interview with mariniss. >> though i have no recollection of having conversations about this after all it was 18 years ago, it is

not uncommon for writers of memoir to do that. i think there is a good possibility that that was what he intended to do is to protect the privacy of these people he writes about in his book. >> some leave mr. obama embellished the facts so his story would better fit in the lineage of african american literature. a narrative of as sent that runs from slave memoirs through the auto biography of malcolm x. is is like going to a psychiatrist and you make up stuff and they can still psychoanalyze you because they are your lies. that. >> in washington, james rosen, fox news. >> shannon: a significant percentage of the world's oil is shipped through the straight of hormu. in. one nation is threatening to block it. and the story of one small boy and his mission to give our

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>> shannon: iran says it is prepared to close the waterway that transports a significant percentage of the world's oil. that is one of the most read

store areries online. peter doocy is standing by to see what you are clicking. >> and ey iran says it is prepd to close the strait if its interests of threatened. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff made the comment after the european union slapped an oil embargo on iran for refusing to back down from its uranium enrichment program. one of the yosemite national parks most storied landmarks could become history. if approved it would restore the natural flow of the river and three bridges including the sigh conic stoneman bridge would removed. and a miraclous story of survival for this baby golden angle until utah. phoenix was burned alive in her nest. its feather were melted and talons and beak and wing all scorched as well. he is in a wildlife rehab

facility and experts hope they will be able to send him back into the wild next year. >> shannon: that poor thing. i could see why people want to click and know what happens. >> and another story on fox news .com. a blind and deaf canine gets a a new leash on life. >> shannon: if it is about dogs i'm all in. very few support groups are started by a 6-year-old. now, 9-year-old jack is running i know jack and he supports our troops for more than two years sending treats to troops deployed around the world. jack, thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> you look fantastic now, tell me what is your interest in the military and how did you get started sending snacks to the troops? >> well, i stopped eating my snacks in my lunch. i would eat it and then save some snacks and my mom asked me why i'm not eating my snacks and i told her i wanted to send them to my cousin matt and then

i wanted to it send them to everyone so they knew that there is still people thinking about them over back in america. >> so it started with your cousin but you decided the other troops out there needed to know that we cared about them too. how do you get snacks to people, donate, raise money, how does this work? >> well, you can go o on to my facebook and we will have a link for pay pal that my cousin set up yesterday but a lot of times people send checks to us and, yeah. >> you have a great website. i did check it out and i understand that you already raised more than $12,000 over the last couple of years and we see video here of packages full going over to the troops. tell me why you think it was important for your cousin and for other troops who may be

half a world away to know that people like you and other americans are thinking about them? >> because a lot of them felt like they were -- that no one was thinking about them and that they were just like so i wanted to make sure that they thought that they knew that someone is still thinking about them back home. >> shannon: do you plan to join the military one day? is that part of your future plan? >> yes. >> shannon: excellent. you are serving our country so well. jack, thank you for what you are doing. we will make sure your information is tweeted out and on our facebook page as well. thank you, jack. >> thank you. >> this is the last call for twitter responses today. we have got many, many responses to the questions today one is do you think the navy is wasting tax dollars or

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>> shannon: some things just get better with age like curtis lovejoy. he just made the u.s.

paralympic team at the age of 525. a accident 25 years ago nearly killed him and left him paralyzed. he learned to swim for the first time as part of his therapy. the pared alympics will be held in london this year. is there a treasure hidden in your dusty old attic? when brian was working in his attic he found 13 bottles of 100 year old whiskey. it was distilled between 1912 and 1913 and bottled in 1917. he says that he and his friends plan on opening a bo bottle in 2017. the navy is starting to invest biofuel but green energy does not come cheap. it is times the price of conventional fuel is this an important step towards saving energy for a waste of money? we got a whole lot of feedback

on this. here are some of your tweet responses. thanks for sharing. we always love to hear from you at home. are we love your tweets. keep them coming to @ anhqdc. "fox news sunday" is next. john roberts is filling in for chris roberts this week. he talks to the chairs of the dnc and rnc. he talks about jobs and the presidential campaign and talks to representative tom price. i'm shannon bream. thanks for watching